Long sought ecoterrorist arrested at Canadian border

posted at 4:01 pm on December 1, 2012 by Jazz Shaw

This one came out of the blue, considering I didn’t even know anyone was still looking for them. Up on the Canadian border, the FBI has arrested somebody who has been on their radar for a very long time. Rebecca Jeanette Rubin was a high profile member of the ecoterrorist group ELF (the Earth Liberation Front) and has been on the run for quite some time. It appears that run has come to an end.

A Canadian woman who has been an international fugitive from charges relating to a string of fires set by environmental radicals surrendered to U.S. authorities on Thursday, officials said.

After a decade on the run, Rebecca Jeanette Rubin, 39, turned herself in at the Canadian border in Blaine, Wash., the FBI announced. She faces federal arson and conspiracy charges in Oregon, Colorado and California. After an appearance in federal district court in Seattle, she will be sent to face trial in Oregon, officials said.

Rubin is accused of being part of a cell known as the Family, which was based in Eugene, Ore., and was affiliated with the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front. From 1996 to 2001, the group was responsible for 20 arsons in five Western states, officials said.

“The Family” was under the direction of William C. Rodgers of Arizona, who was arrested in 2005. He committed suicide. Most of this took place quite a while ago, but among the many infamous cases of arson they perpetrated, one of the most violent, spectacular and expensive was the burning of a 206-unit condominium which was under construction near San Diego, California in 2003. Fortunately, nobody was killed in the massive blaze, but it caused approximately $20M dollars in damage, including a $7M construction crane and the explosion of a 500 gallon fuel tank. When it was all over, the following charming message was left in the rubble.

If you build it, we will burn it.

The cited reason for burning down the complex? They were protesting urban sprawl. By 2005, the FBI considered ELF to be “the country’s biggest domestic terror threat.” You can view a pretty good timeline of their attacks at Wiki, spanning a period from 1997 to 2009. It’s a lengthy tale of pipe bombs, arson and mayhem, all in the name of supposedly helping to save the planet. They claimed to be “the burning rage of the Earth.”

This is all more than enough reason to be glad that another of their members has been brought to justice, even if very belatedly. Now we have to find out if she’s already got some legal loophole to get out of this or if she’ll actually face trial.

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Now we have to find out if she’s already got some legal loophole to get out of this or if she’ll actually face trial.

Are you kidding? This is going to be a show trial like the terrorist trials were going to be. This is the platform for her and her lawyers to grandstand and indict the developed world (i.e, the US) for all of the damage being done to the earth, the god that these people worship. It will allow a platform to spew more anti-industrial, anti-technology propaganda and will align very well with the Obama regime’s attack on fracking, refusal to allow offshore drilling and closure of federal lands to oil exploration. This is perfect for the administration’s next four years. … and since the democrats and MSM (but I repeat myself) hate progress and support the eco-fringe left goals, the MSM will be giving plenty of airtime to this “trial”.

I wonder how they feel about a couple hundred thousand acres for a wind farm? To burn or not to burn? Perhaps blowing up would be better. Yet, wind farms are so ecologically friendly…unless you’re a bird. Then, not so much.

Would growing corn to burn in automobiles be a target? Dried corn would burn well. Burning it in the fields would probably pollute less than putting in gasoline tanks. Choices, choices.

So – after spending Millions of Taxpayer Dollars chasing her, the FBI was impotent in their efforts to “catch” or “apprehend” her…

As you state – she walked in of her own volition and “surrendered” to authorities…….had she NOT “given up”, she would still be free, the FBI would STILL not “have” her, and Taxpayer money would STILL be getting spent to “find” her…..

This is all more than enough reason to be glad that another of their members has been brought to justice, even if very belatedly. Now we have to find out if she’s already got some legal loophole to get out of this or if she’ll actually face trial.

I guess a second term for the rat-eared wonder has encouraged a homecoming for radical fugitives. There will be no trial under this Justice Department. They’d much rather prosecute BP executives and Corporate CEOs.

After a decade on the run, Rebecca Jeanette Rubin, 39, turned herself in at the Canadian border in Blaine, Wash., the FBI announced.

It doesn’t seem like anyone WAS still looking for her. She should have been nabbed at home in Canada and dragged across the border. Total scum. Just like the rest of the left and the dems. They are anti-human. If it were up to them, all of the Earth would be returned to nothing but green slime … sort of like Washington under the Retarded Indonesian Sukarno knock-off.

Shallow belief system come from shallow minds, and they don’t get any shallower than these idiots.

SWalker on December 1, 2012 at 5:23 PM

IMO it is less about shallow thinking and beliefs than it is a warped world view based on a selfish and unrealistic outlook. You don’t find groups like ELF/ALF in oppressive societies. Only in places where the idiots feel secure enough that they can start making up fake world problems to solve instead of addressing the real ones. Put another way, you don’t find ecoterrorism in North Korea or South America (where poverty really is doing ecological damage to the rainforests).

This need to solve fake world problems, BTW, also explains most Ron Paul supporters.

Well timed. This scumbag regime is the perfect deal maker for these William Ayer type terrorists. Black Panther Holder will drop charges and she will be on the faculty of some crap bag lib university, sucking tax money up like a Haitian refugee in no time. These lowlifes have been prepped for pardon and introduction into the ruining of America part two. All of barry’s socialists crime bosses have lined up for freedom and the gravy train and his victory has open the gates. America, what a country!

If you really believe what you preach, then get on a raft made of precut logs and find a place where you’d like to have a reef built and float out there and throw yourself over after you cut yourself to draw the natural carnivores of the sea.

But untie the logs first so that they all go free, or you could just sink it with you.

You’ll create a reef for the fish, you’ll feed them with your carcass and you’ll save the fowl stench of your existence to the great Mother earth.

Eco damage solved, one principled environmentalist at a time.

If you won’t do that then you’re as bad as Bin Laden sending the young out to do his dirty work while he sits in that ratting concubine surfing for porn in Pakistan.

When are they going to start going after real terrorists like the Teabaggers and VFW?

WeekendAtBernankes on December 1, 2012 at 4:48 PM

Almost the VFW.

You missed Secretary and Her Excellency Janet Napolitano’s release of an “Assessment” in 2011 which listed vets returning from theater as a potential source of right wing terrorist. The veterans did not hear it as an assessment.

And the Teabaggers are well known for spitting on Congressional Processions.

You don’t find groups like ELF/ALF in oppressive societies. Only in places where the idiots feel secure enough that they can start making up fake world problems to solve instead of addressing the real ones.

Happy Nomad on December 1, 2012 at 5:35 PM

And the kicker is, they use these fake world problems to turn non-oppressive societies into oppressive societies.